So to lay this story out in the simplest version.....there's been this ongoing crisis in Turkey with Syrian refugees sitting there and 'waiting'.
The war in Syria....just for the record, has not ended. No one feels comfortable going back, and frankly.....they all feel the ISIS war could restart.
The average Turk? Their patience with the refugee business is reaching a breaking point. If you live in the southern quarter of Turkey....from Adana (the tourist region) over to the east (to Kasrik).....there are various camps/compounds, which the Turks house/feed the refugee community of Syrians.
Off some Turkish news site recently....an older Turkish guy shouted at some refugee gal (Syrian) that he couldn't buy bananas right now because the Syrian refugees were buying these by the kilo (meaning they were bulk-buying bananas). True or not? Unknown.
So the Syrians went to view the situation via YouTube, and a 'Lets Go Brandon' type situation developed.
Literally hundreds of social videos came up in a matter of days. One portrayed a 'poor' Turkish family...sitting in a circle, with one single banana. They slowly cut the single banana up....to claim the fact that they were fake-Turks trying to survive off the one banana as a family.
Naturally, this version of the Syrian's 'Lets Go Brandon' wasn't widely accepted by the Turkish community.
So in recent days....to show their anger, the Turkish government selected seven young guys who were making the banana videos....filed the deportation paperwork, and forced them to leave Turkey.
If you go and view social media chatting.....there's a fair amount of humor on both sides, but there's a serious amount of hostility brewing as well.
The term 'eating bananas provocatively'? It's enough now in Turkey to get you in serious trouble. You could get a visit by the cops if you were in a pub....drinking tea and suddenly everyone pulled out bananas to munch on.
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